No one is taking over civil disordered nations. That may be slight hyperbole, but to my knowledge, there are currently 23 open positions in ongoing games due to people being kicked out of them.
Confession: I once abruptly left the site for personal reasons. This resulted in 4 CDs. When I returned to the site, I had to work to get my reliability rating up from a 78 (I think, this was years ago) back to a 96. I think I was at 97 right before the new changes were implemented. The way that I restored the site's faith in me was this: I joined games that others had left, and I played them. It didn't matter if the position was crumbling; when I took over a position, I played it to the best of my ability.
And open spots in games were hard to come by in those days- there were others, who, having been kicked out of their games, and having their game-joining ability limited because of their sloppiness, wanted to join more games. The only mechanism by which they could increase their game cap was to take over for players who had NMRed.
With the new reliability rating, there is no incentive to take over a crumbling position. Before the change, I think the most open spots that there ever were was six. Now there are twenty-three. I do not foresee that number getting better.
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